By default, portable licenses are checked out when Revit is started and returned when Revit is shut down. However, all programs have options in settings to not check out licenses until a command is activated; change to these options to avoid having a license checked out at startup. Note the following program specific information as well:
- For Keynote Manager, make sure you uncheck both ‘Watcher on at startup’ and ‘Palette on at startup’ settings as well. Since these are both Keynote Manager commands they will still take a license at Revit startup if these settings are on.
- For workFlow please note that the autoLink function requires constant background monitoring of the links. Because of this autoLink must be started at Revit startup and will therefore take a license. Revit workFlow with autoLink can not effectively be set to ‘first command’ licensing, sorry for the inconvenience.